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Quite sad yet more women will die of heart disease than breast cancer. Although I do like her request: >Promise me, I told my friends and family, that you'll
by dghughes 12y ago
Quite sad yet more women will die of heart disease than breast cancer.
Although I do like her request:
>Promise me, I told my friends and family, that you'll never say that I died after “fighting a courageous battle with breast cancer.” This tired, trite line dishonors the dead and the dying by suggesting that we, the victims, are responsible for our deaths or that the fight we were in was ever fair.
And the slamming of that marketing machine Susan G. Komen which has become a monster that congratulates itself, sues people and trademarks the colour pink; I'm sure that's important to their machine.
- kevin_thibedeau 12y agoThis is what disgusts me most with Komen's annual "save the boobies" campaign. It really turned into a circus when they started smearing their marketing gimmick over professional athletes and garbage cans. It speaks to the shallowness of American culture that diseases can be "marketed" for the sake of the almighty buck.
- colinbartlett 12y agoCheck out the documentary Pink Ribbons, Inc. which aims to expose that exact phenomenon. Trailer: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3QPZfcYTUaA https://youtube.com/watch?v=3QPZfcYTUaA